This toolkit provides everything you need to create and view Web3D worlds using the royalty-free international standard for extensible 3D online content, the X3D.

The WEB3D toolkit

offers something for you, whether you're viewing your first Web3D world, exploring Web3D from a background in games, VR, film or web development, working with the latest prototypes and source code, or building a metaverse from scratch.

Content Creation Suite

Modelers

  • Inkscape - Free Software for vector drawing in SVG format
    • Mac, Windows, Linux, Source Code
  • Blender - Free Software for 3D modeling with built-in X3D export
    • Mac, Windows, Linux, Source Code
  • Wings3D - Free Software for low-polygon 3D modeling with built-in X3D export
    • Mac, Windows, Linux, Source Code
  • Art of Illusion - Free Software for 3D modeling with with built-in VRML export
    • Java, Source Code
  • OctagaModeller
    • Windows

Converters

Exporters

Visual Editors

  • white_dune - VRML editor
    • Mac, Windows, Linux, Source Code
  • VizX3D - X3D editor
    • Windows

X3D-Edit

Optimizer

  • Chisel
    • Java, plus launchers for Mac, Windows, Linux and other UNIX

Other tools

  • Cassandra 2.3 - open source 3D scientific data viewer based on VTK and Java with graphical VTK pipeline editor and a Jython script based fearture. Includes a X3D and VRML export capabilities.
    • Java, Source Code, Windows, Linux
  • OpenDis - Open source implementation of the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol standardized as IEEE-1278.
    • Java, Source Code
  • ParaView - Open source Parallel Visualization Application.
    • Windows, Linux, Source Code